RP, I cannot anymore wrap around my head this kind of news . I’ve been trying to write something nice about the Philippines, it is after all my country of but I cannot anymore ignore the anomalies and corruption right there at the gateway to the country.

You maybe right. I wonder what the families of these employees are thinking about them. My parents had told me that at my brother’s school, there was a question in the application form that asked where the parents were working. We knew that if a parent worked at the Customs, the application of the student was always rejected. Do you know why ? My brother’s school , Southridge Schoo for Boys, is the most expensive school for elem and HS in the Philippines. . ( The school is low-key due to kidnappings ) The school staff know for a fact that a Custom’s employees, and therefore , a government employee, won’t be able to afford the yearly tuition fees of the school. In the 1990’s , it was like P 75,000 . Southridge is owned by the Opus Dei…. that’s why they don’t like students with corrupt parents.